Goal
Practise reading words in context — and lower the stakes so much that reading feels like the fun bit, not the hard bit.
You'll need
- Tricky Word Cards
- Animal Phonics Flashcards
- CVC Word Cards
How to do it
Spread out the word cards — tricky words, animals, CVC words, whatever you have. Each person picks two or three at random. The challenge: make the silliest sentence possible using those words.
"The blue frog sat on the moon." "A sad cat said the big dog was wet." Read your sentence aloud, as dramatically as you can. Then swap cards and go again.
There's real phonics work happening here — blending, reading tricky words by sight, understanding how sentences fit together — but it doesn't feel like it. Which is entirely the point.
Grab our resources
Print our tricky word cards and animal phonics flashcards to get started.
